We went for a walk on Saturday down by the bayou just to get out and get a little excercise. Of course I had the camera in tow. Not a lot of photo opportunities, but Cynthia spotted this guy on a flower no bigger than a pinky fingernail. I’m stiff today from squatting down and trying to hold the camera still as the wind blew my subject to and fro.
It looks very much like a Crane Fly (aka Mosquito Hawk) which we see all the time in and around the house. But this guy is much smaller and has a probiscus rather than mandibles. My guess is he’s either a juvenile Elephant Mosquito or just a plane old male mosquito.
This pic remonds me of the album cover of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds
On a side note, there’s a 30th anniversary tour in the works which (sadly) doesn’t look like it will make it here to the U.S.
This shot was done with a flash from above.
Yep male mosquitos dont suck blood. They feast off of flower and fruit nectar. Doesn’t make me like them anymore though.
I have the DVD of the stage show for the Jeff Wayne production. Must have been amazing, live.
awesome photos….
And that album was one of my favs when I was a kid….I need to get a copy of it again…
Saw my first mosquito of 2009 the other day. If we’re supposedly dry and in need of rain, why are these suckers around?
I bought War of the Worlds when I was in high school, and I still have it. Sadly, as of about a year ago, I can no longer say the same about a turntable.
The detail on the wings in the shot from above is amazing!!!